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crack_van2006-03-22 03:44 pm
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Gooney Bird by BK the irregular (PG)
Fandom: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA 2003
Pairing: None
Author on LJ:![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bktheirregular
Author Website: Irregularities
Why this must be read: After Season 1 ended, a Common People writing challenge was issued on LJ and this was one of the fabulous stories that was written for it. It's a great story about a truly "common" person trying to keep up and stay sane during all the fleet's FTL jumps. Because heroics is such a commonplace thing on the show, it's nice to see someone non-military also being heroic, but in a mellow-er, more low-key way.
They told me later it was a hundred and ninety-seven jumps. I did a hundred ninety-seven jumps with the rest of the Fleet, trying to catnap for ten minutes at a time when I could, then going into the med cabinet for stims when it got worse. I was ten minutes late on jump one ninety-seven because I'd leaned back and nodded off, and then when I was huddled over the controls to get my bearings, I fell asleep and leaned into the yoke. Seeing a light freighter in an accelerating pitch-down spin is hilarious from the outside, they tell me; when you're in the middle of that spin, it's no fun at all. But it does wake you up.
Gooney Bird
Pairing: None
Author on LJ:
bktheirregularAuthor Website: Irregularities
Why this must be read: After Season 1 ended, a Common People writing challenge was issued on LJ and this was one of the fabulous stories that was written for it. It's a great story about a truly "common" person trying to keep up and stay sane during all the fleet's FTL jumps. Because heroics is such a commonplace thing on the show, it's nice to see someone non-military also being heroic, but in a mellow-er, more low-key way.
They told me later it was a hundred and ninety-seven jumps. I did a hundred ninety-seven jumps with the rest of the Fleet, trying to catnap for ten minutes at a time when I could, then going into the med cabinet for stims when it got worse. I was ten minutes late on jump one ninety-seven because I'd leaned back and nodded off, and then when I was huddled over the controls to get my bearings, I fell asleep and leaned into the yoke. Seeing a light freighter in an accelerating pitch-down spin is hilarious from the outside, they tell me; when you're in the middle of that spin, it's no fun at all. But it does wake you up.
Gooney Bird